Daniel N challenges anyone to a HU match.

[The_Bends]

I like it a lot. Lets face it DN is one of THE big name players around at the moment. I'd love to see him take on either a name player or a complete random for comedy value. If he's doing it to get the big game to move to his casino I don't blame him either. Someone on his own forum suggested that this could become a 'king of the hill' style event which would be fantastic. Kind of like the heavywieght world championship in boxing. Lets say Ivey wins and agrees to continue the format where he picks the venue and a challenger picks the game.

Seriously this could be as big as the WSOP.

[TheMainEvent]

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With only 30BB for a 100k match or 50BB for 500k the luck factor seems to be pretty high. Why would he he want such a structure?

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Because he wants it to end in some reasonable amount of time.

Although I agree 30BB is ridiculous.

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We were speculating in a different thread that it's not the freezeout size that's important to him, it's the blind size (so he can continue to play in effect a very long game at his usual stakes), and in fact somebody noted that any losing matches will provide advertising value.

[mmbt0ne]

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I probably shouldn't be telling everybody about this before I run it by the people at the Wynn, but I have an idea that I think will be lots of fun for me, and hopefully profitable as well.

It's pretty simple really: I'll play anyone in the world a heads up freeze out for any amount from $100,000 to $500,000.

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I'm willing to bet that he has already run this by the people at the Wynn, and I'm also going to go out on a limb and say that he would be getting some sort of extra compensation from the Wynn, win or lose, for all of the attention such an event would attract. With that extra money coming in, it would be hard for him to be making a -EV choice in any game against any player.

[MonkeeMan]

I believe it's a picture of a big chicken.

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"Sklansky won't play me, that I'm pretty sure of. David is a smart man and knows that the losing won't be good for his image. I've left a long list of possible games to choose from and he picked one that wasn't on the list.

I do expect to see other top players play me, but not David. He doesn't play for that kind of money and I truly feel like he has to much to loose, especially if I beat him in every discipline.

If he felt like it wasn't worth his time, I'd throw him a bone and lay him 1.10 on any of the matches. He can pick the game, the mix of games, and the amount. I would then come up with the ante structure which seems pretty fair if you ask me.

Again, Sklansky would never accept this match, but I'm sure some other high limit players would. Of course I'd only offer the 1.10 to David."

[Sundevils21]

zing!
I guess he meant 8 or better, lol.
to me it sounds like Daniel is trying to lure DS into playing a match that he doesn't want to.
Now DS has a little bait though with an extra 10K thrown in if he wins a $100K match.
I wonder at what point David would play Daniel? Obviously getting 2-1 David would have to play, right? Is there a magic number, 1.5?
I would think 1.1 should be enough for David to play him.

[mmbt0ne]

DN
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You can choose just one or any mix of games you want.
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Stud H/L

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DS
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100K freezout in stud hi-lo with no qualifier (his list didn't stipulate a qualifier)

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DN
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I've left a long list of possible games to choose from and he picked one that wasn't on the list.

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DN = bagina boy.

[BarronVangorToth]

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Is there a magic number, 1.5?

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I think it's safe to say that at 1.5 even if David didn't want to put up the full $100-$500K himself, that he would have investors chomping at the bit to get in on that action.

Daniel offering even 1.1 against someone as skilled as David already says to me that he is either really confident OR really eager to make this happen, especially given the stakes (as, obviously, most of us would offer 1.1 on meager stakes purely for adding the anecdote of playing a freezeout against David, even if -EV, but we're not talking $110 to $100 or even $1100 to $1000 ... we're in the six digits and it's going to be interesting).

Barron Vangor Toth
www.BarronVangorToth.com

[InfernoLL]

Yeah, what a pussy for not wanting to play a game that he (anybody) never plays while offering like 8 other games. You might as well challenge him to crazy pineapple and then declare yourself the alpha male when he declines.